Quotes About Insight

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. ... As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, although their words are by far the most decisive evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.

I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.

Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

Seek to understand the root. It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

Books from the ancients, or the yogis and shamans, are your time capsules from yourselves to yourselves…

Danielson was a talking head in his fifties

Life can only be understood backward; but it must be lived forwards. —Søren Kierkegaard

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

I always kept in mind my father's warning: "If he's bigger than you are, don't fight back. Use your head instead of your fists.

But McNamara knew more than the actual facts—he also knew the hypothetical ones. When you talked with him, you realized that he had already played out in his head the relevant details for every conceivable option and scenario.

If you do not know history, you think short term. If you know history, you think medium and long term

I do not want to sound like a hawk or a dove. If I have to choose a metaphor from the aviary, I would like to think of the owl.

Social psychology stands at the intersection between our eyes and the world in front of us, and helps us understand the difference between what we think we see and what is actually out there.

people often make correct predictions on the basis of erroneous beliefs and defective prediction strategies.

Those that'll tell don't know, and those that know won't tell.

I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.

You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.

I tend not to analyse my work, though I'm frequently intrigued when other people take time to do so.

Our Reason walks with weary, bruiséd feet. But Intuition soars with wings complete. The conscious mind is not so much the man As that subconscious force that knows Life's plan.

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.

p.45: Es preferible acertar aproximadamente a equivocarse precisamente.